Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Some Opinions and Papers of Stephen J. Field, Vol. 1: Associate Justice and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California, United States Circuit Justice for the Ninth and Tenth Circuits, and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
The right of' Congress to punish Officers of a State for the manner in which they discharge their duties under its laws, denied; the relations between the Federal and the State governments, defined; and the doctrine that the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments secure to all persons only civil rights, and not political rights, asserted.
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